Prophetic Conflict and Scribal Culture: Ancient Exegetical Imagination in the Book of Jeremiah (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783111564647)

Prophetic conflict, or true and false prophecy, is a classic centerpiece in biblical scholarship. The dominant historicist approach has long regarded biblical discourse about prophetic conflict as a reflex of socio-religious or ideological disputes in ancient Israel. Taking its cue from major developments in the study of the Hebrew Bible-inner-biblical interpretation, scribal culture-this book argues that prophetic conflict in the book of Jeremiah is a scribal literary invention.Jeremiah's prophetic opponents, whose speeches are suffused with inner-biblical allusions, are best understood as exegetical inventions that owe their very existence to ancient exegetical imagination. Meticulously designed, these characters fulfil a strategic exegetical function within the Jeremianic tradition. Prophetic conflict, reassessed through the lens of scribal culture, emerges as a literary vehicle for articulating a scribal grammar, a set of exegetical rules, for interpreting salvation and judgement in the Jeremianic tradition.The scribal invention of prophetic conflict opens a window onto ancient Israelite literary culture, scribal hermeneutics, harmonization, incipient notions of scriptural coherence, and the formation of the book of Jeremiah.

Author: Olga Fabrikant-Burke
ISBN-10: 3111564649
ISBN-13: 9783111564647
Publisher: de Gruyter
Language: English
Published: 02/16/2026
Pages: 230
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d